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Soyuz spacecraft brings Space Station Expedition 52 back to Earth (WATCH LIVE) Soyuz spacecraft brings Space Station Expedition 52 back to Earth (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
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The Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft has reentered the atmosphere after 135 days in orbit, carrying the Expedition 52 crew from the International Space Station back to Earth. The Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft has reentered the atmosphere after 135 days in orbit, carrying three Expedition 52 crew members from the International Space Station back to Earth.
The Expedition 52 crew – NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA, and Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos – are landing in Kazakhstan after finishing their mission on the International Space Station (ISS). The Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft has successfully landed in Kazakhstan after 135 days in orbit, carrying members of Expedition 52 back from the International Space Station (ISS).
NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer along with Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos landed in the Kazakh steppes.
From the landing site, all three crew members will be flown by helicopter to Karaganda where Yurchikhin will board a Russian space agency plane for the trip home to Star City near Moscow. NASA had planned to send Whitson and Fischer to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, but because of Hurricane Harvey, those plans might be delayed.
While in space, the astronauts and the Russian cosmonaut had some rare experiences. They had front row seats last month to catch a partial view of the solar eclipse three times as they orbited Earth from the station. Jack Fischer also had the opportunity to share astounding high-definition timelapse footage from the space station as it sailed over the US.
Fischer and Yurchikhin, who arrived at the space station together in April, spent 136 days in space during this mission.
As for Whitson, she returns to earth a record holder. In June 2017, she broke the record for the longest single space flight by a woman. During her three missions to space she has accrued a total of 665 days in orbit.
Whitson spent some of her time in space working with fungus in the orbiting laboratory to search for new antibiotics. NASA astronaut Jack Fischer spent time studying the impacts of pressure to the head stemming from long-term spaceflight by performing “a non-invasive assessment of intracranial pressure for spaceflight and related visual impairment (IPVI).”